Sujet

Tower Bridge, Tower Hamlets, Greater London Authority, June 1886. Creator: London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co.

Légende

Tower Bridge, Tower Hamlets, Greater London Authority, June 1886. A portrait of Sir Horace Jones seated beside the foundation stone of Tower Bridge. Sir Horace Jones (1819-1887) was the architect of Tower Bridge, which he designed in collaboration with the civil engineer John Wolfe Barry. This cabinet card shows him seated, stick in hand, beside the bridge's foundation stone around which it is possible to see the block and tackle used to manoeuvre the stone into its resting place on the south side of the Thames. The photograph was presumably taken in a temporary marquee erected to house the stone prior to it being laid by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales in June 1886. Sir Horace died the following year and the bridge was completed posthumously. Tower Bridge officially opened on the 30th June 1894.

Date

1886

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Notre référence

HRM23A78_473

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

66,8Mo (3,0Mo) / 34,3cm x 48,7cm / 4057 x 5756 (300dpi)

Mots clés

London England people male job man men architecture sitting engineering country foundations guy occupation bridge bridges British English color structure foundation inscription location Victorian century Tower Bridge Britain profession civil engineering architect seated B&W Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black 1880s nineteenth century Tower Hamlets inscribed TGN Horace Jones foundation stone photograph Sir Horace Horace London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co London Stereoscopic Co The London Stereoscopic Co London Stereoscopic Co. London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company London Stereoscopic Company London Stereoscopic & Photo Co Jones Sir Horace Jones Historic England 19th-century Lon